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unusual facts about Hope and Glory



Shirley Ann Russell

Russell's other credits include The Little Prince, Lady Chatterley's Lover, The Return of the Soldier, The Razor's Edge, Hope and Glory, The Bride, Yanks, Gulliver's Travels, I Dreamed of Africa, and Shackleton.

Wisley Airfield

Award-winning British film director John Boorman reconstructed a war-time suburban London street on part of the disused runway as the main film set for his autobiographical 1987 film Hope and Glory.


see also

25th Anniversary Box Set

#"Wind-Up / Locomotive Breath / Land of Hope and Glory" (Recorded at Golders Green Hippodrome, London – February 2, 1977)

Land of Hope and Glory

While their anthem changed to "God Save the Queen" after the dissolution of the Great Britain side in 2007, it is still tradition for the team to use "Land of Hope and Glory" as their walk-out theme.